Whichever New York Times editor came up with the headline “Delay of Philip Guston Retrospective Divides the Art World” must have been asleep at the keyboard. The gob-smacking decision of four …
The Giverny Document is a noisy film, full of music, yelling, screaming, crying, scratching, wailing, and laughter. But the most deafening moments unfold in silence when viewers are left to assess …
Exclusively available in the print edition of Gulf Coast 33.1
Exclusively available in the print edition of Gulf Coast 33.1
Exclusively available in the print edition of Gulf Coast 33.1
This essay on the work of Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle was the winner the 2019 Toni Beauchamp Prize for Critical Art Writing, judged by Jessica Lynne.
For more years than were good for me, I worked as an editor and staff writer for an art magazine. My co-editor, Jennifer, had a valuable talent for finding humor in the dull routine tasks and …
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This review of zürich moves! 2019, an annual festival for contemporary arts practice in performing arts, was a runner-up in the 2019 Toni Beauchamp Prize for Critical Art Writing, judged by Jessica …
The people whom Arbus photographed were probably separated from their families when they were born. Their mothers and fathers were most likely told that they would be too much of a burden to raise. …
It’s still a question of how queer exhibitions can function within certain institutions without assimilating, without petrifying living works in order to propose additions to “the” hegemonic …
At once hermetic and worldly, ethereal and dense, this tightly focused exhibition reflects in its contradictions the difficulties and pleasures of Rockburne’s early career, which spanned from the …
An account of Tony Feher’s proposal for a horticultural sculpture at the University of Houston.
In her recent exhibition, “The Chiefest of Ten Thousand,” the Los Angeles-based painter Celeste Dupuy-Spencer continues her exploration of US culture in a series of figurative canvases that …
"Of course, my mindset changes, sometimes not as much as I want it to, but I’m usually not sarcastic about things. Even if it comes across a little sarcastic, there is some sort of seed that I am …
Certainly today we are inundated with screens that have become smart, offering a digital panoply of information responsive to human touch, rub, and swipe. This would suggest a departure from the …
Curtiss’ focus on the female form, inaccessible and distorted by locks of hair, produces a distinctive reflection on feminism and reconsideration of hair’s cultural symbology.
It’s no big secret that artists and art critics have coopted the word “poetic” to describe art. But just what does the word mean to non-poets?
Mud might be a sinking feeling, a series of words used to cause pain, a confusion about relationships, or something to build from, it might be the evidence of something past, or the life source of …
But what choice did I have? Brandon and his colleagues had done all they could do; Ketamine was a last resort.